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Two teenagers who pelted motorway traffic with rocks and bricks from a bridge have been jailed.

Warehouse workers Jordan Arendorf and Peter Nugent hurled bricks and rubble at passing vehicles as they walked home in the morning after a shift.

They smashed several windscreens and injured one driver. A judge said that it was "only by the Grace of God" that no-one was killed.

The pair, both of Lawrence Weston, Bristol, were handed two-and-a-half years' custody after pleading to guilty to four charges of obstructing a road and a single charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

One of the men's supporters shouted: "F*** the system" as she left court.

Damage to the cement lorry's windscreen.
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The two 19-year-olds terrorised drivers over the course of several weeks by bombarding them with improvised missiles from Kings Weston Lane bridge, over the M49 and M5 slip road in Bristol.

Christopher and Deborah Shaw were in their Ford Escort estate, towing their £10,000 caravan to Brean for a holiday, when a flat rock smashed the front window of the caravan.

A vending machine cup - similar to those found at the teenagers' workplace - was also stuffed full of stones, gravel and brick and thrown at traffic.

Jordan Arendorf and Peter Nugent.
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Lorry driver James Armstrong had the windscreen of his 44-tonne DAF cement truck cracked, before a lump of concrete hit him in the chest.

He was admitted to hospital with severe bruising.

Three days later lorry driver Steve Morton spotted two boys on the bridge before one threw a missile and his windscreen smashed, covering him in glass.